Gee, I did not expect to be so provocative. It just struck me as exactly the sort of thing you’d find in the book’s dystopian world. “Look at this, and see how pretty it is when I move a flame over it! Read it? Oh, heavens no, it’s not for reading, nobody reads anymore; let’s look at more of my pretty things instead!”
But your comment does remind me that despite ranting about the awfulness of the Internet in his later years, at the time of its release Bradbury looked favorably on the 1984 interactive fiction “sequel” that someone else wrote. (I can’t seem to find the quote at the moment.)
